Showing posts with label sexual violence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sexual violence. Show all posts

Thursday, April 25, 2019

The U.N. wanted to end sexual violence in war. Then the Trump administration had objections - The Washington Post

When Denis Mukwege, a Congolese gynecologist, and Nadia Murad, an Iraqi Yazidi were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize last October for their work to stop the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war, there was widespread praise from all parts of the world, including the United States. But when the Trump administration was asked this month to do its part, and to pass a U.N. resolution to end sexual violence in war, things suddenly looked a bit more complicated. ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/04/24/un-wanted-end-sexual-violence-war-then-trump-administration-had-objections/

Sunday, September 30, 2018

What Teenagers Think Of The Accusations Against Brett Kavanaugh (Meghna Chakrabarti, On Point)

Teens and the Kavanaugh hearings. What do they think about how Washington is handling this moment? What lessons are they learning? We’ll ask teenagers from around the country.
Interview:
http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2018/09/26/teens-kavanaugh

Friday, September 7, 2018

Proposed Title IX changes ‘fix’ a problem completely fabricated by the Right - Daily Kos

There's no doubt that campus rape is a problem. There has been a lot of reputable, peer-reviewed research into the prevalence of sexual violence inflicted upon and among students. Instead of treating the dignity of human beings as a non-political issue, conservatives have somehow turned rape and abuse—of youth, no less—into a partisan issue. ....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1792159

Wednesday, June 6, 2018

Congressional candidate is a pedophile who wants to legalize rape by making women property - Daily Kos

Trump's election sparked a new fire in many Americans to politically engage and #resist. We've seen a lot of the good parts of it, like more women running for political office. Unfortunately, one Virginia man running from Congress also shows the dark side of electing a sexual predator to the White House and supporting a pedophile candidate for U.S. Senate: making misogyny and sexual violence mainstream. ....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1768702







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